Ghost 'n Goblins for GFX9000 - First steps

Those level gfx look darn sweet! Keep up the good work.

Cool

Very Nice!

Thanks for your comments.

The only problem would be the lack of memory mapper, but making the game in ROM format would not be needed. Yes we could do to make it work in a MSX1.

...begin nitpick...
assembler: MSX2 and having a memory mapper are not the same thing. There are MSX1's with memory mapper (e.g. Yamaha CX5MII/128) and MSX2's without (e.g. Sony HB-G900P).
...end nitpick...

For Jupiter!

You were very good!

By what method did you convert the stage1 in a fixed image or pattern to make a map?

I made ​​a lot of progress to make equal the stage1 in a map with a maximum of 16K (in 8x8 for patterns).
The fact is that they can't are able to automatically fill in the pieces of the puzzle in a stage1 map in memory of MSX!

I searched all over the internet: convert an image (map) in the same pattern for 8x8 screen!

The only program I could find and convert to 8x8 is this link: site parallex

But unfortunately it has a limit of 256 characters!
Screen 5 supports up to 768 cells (256x192 in screen5)
So you can not handle all these 256 patterns ....

I wish you every success with the project GNG x v9990!
A greeting. ;)
DanySoft

but?
have not used the P1 or P2??
This saves space on the VRAM instead of image size!

Even if you are as it is, but it can go the other areas of the game?
I have it all figured out, one of these stages is too large to fill the memory, then there is no room to add more sprites!

I stopped at the point of problem:
convert the original map in 8x8 map, I could not!

greetings
DanySoft

NB: P2 may be the solution for the entire screen including
the stages 2,3 and 4 and can also all the sprites.
I'm working on but I always stop at the point of problem!

Each layer in P1 has 64x32 tiles, 512x256 pixels. This is not enough to fit the whole map in either case for this game.

So the map is divided into blocks of 16 KB that fit in a memory slot. I select the slot that corresponds to the area I want to display in screen.

i.e. If the whole map has 8192 pixels wide, a slot has information for 8 lines of the map.
8192/8=1024 tiles width
1024x2=2048 bytes each line
16384/2048= 8 lines in each slot

If this map has 512 pixels height:
512/8 = 64 lines
64/8 = 8 slots

We need 128KB of memory to display a map with 8192*512 pixels.

Each tile in gfx9000 uses 2 bytes, so the memory used is doubled, and in my case, i use 2 planes at the same speed, so the memory need to be doubled again.

I forgot the second plane in my numbers, but 4096x512 is big enough for a map.

To simplify the procesing, the lines length are rounded to the next pow of 2

Hey Sarcasmic: Don't sell it

they can get it.
And the power is on GFX9000 not in msx2 or msx1 hw. They are, equals in power, except for gfx. But in this case, we are using v9990, so msx1 power == msx2 power.

I kind of agree with PingPong this time. If I would make a gfx9000 game I would make it MSX1 compatible too.
Diskdrives and MMC/SD interfaces and flash cartridges do work on MSX1 too.

I wondered what about a 9990 game is "MSX2".
There is one thing that is MSX1: the bios does not init mappers.
So, at startup of your app init the RAM mapper to default values. This also makes sense for apps who actualy not use the mapper.

This one is not so much "funny requests of low end users", it is more like "programming the much expandable MSX".

New video :
http://asm-msx.blogspot.com.es/

looks very good.. keep up the good works!

Wow, looks really great. What machine is it running? I trust the music will require MoonSound in order to have the best sound experience, right?

We can only imagine what nice games we would have now if ASCII did the right thing and released Turbo-R with V9978 (V9990 + V9958 compatibility)... Maybe MSX would stay in the market some more years as a commercial platform...

You did check on real hardware right? The GFX9000 emulation is not very accurate yet.

MSX was loosing that battle anyway. But now because PC's are so fast and overtaken by consumers the MSX is ready for a second life. MSX is so different now to me I can see myself using it the rest of my life. Making good software for MSX is an art, on a PC it's too easy nowadays. I hope many people feel the same way and other past MSX-ers will rejoin the cult.

I think it is funny that one of your first posts here on mrc was that you were thinking about selling your msx collection since you didnt do anything with it... and now you ended up buying even more stuff

Any news about this game?
If yes, what about a 9958 version with scc and no gfx9000?

This is the current state of development.

http://youtu.be/bz-xBlzYOiE

Very impressive!

Five years now...

At least the development is almost 100%.
-Place the witches in their place in stages 4,6 and 7 (in this version, arcade stage 3 is divided in two stages)
-Try to "pack" sprites for bat in stage 4
-Include the complete sound library
-Some little bugs.

Really a GREAT work!!
Me also have received the demo with the PowerGraph

Can't wait for the full version!

Any news?

6 years! But that recent update looked very promising! This is certainly a long running project.... And it shows.

I wonder if we will ever see it completed

YEAH!!

There is an ipothetic release date?

So, what is your TODO list?

Been there, done that.

As someone who took nearly 8 years to finish a project, I would say, take your time to finish it, no matter how long it takes. Since you have the game already completed, if you get sick of working on it, you can release what you have done. But while that doesn't happen, you can work on it to make it as good as you want it to be.

That's what I did.

I think that there are 3 or 4 'big' games that have been on the go for several years that are at a similar stage.

I've recieved this game a couple of weeks ago and it is simply AWESOME .
Gameplay, sound and graphics are really impressive!
I know it has been a lot of work to complete this game, many thanks for making this port reality!

But I have to ask!

Any chance you will create a port of ghouls n ghosts as well???

Thanks!

Hello,
I ordered the game a few months ago, but apart from a Google form return email, I never had any information about the status of my order. Is it normal ?

I want one too under my Xmas Tree EMail sent!

Pity there's no digital version available

or expander?

or built in SFG for Yamahas with side slot users